Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Spring Semester, 2008
Building mobile applications with Android
Also see the Fall 2008 version of the course.Building Mobile Applications with Android was an experimental
course offered in spring 08 by the EECS Department in cooperation
with MIT's Information and Technology organization. The course was
taught by EECS Professor Hal Abelson with the assistance of Andrew Yu,
manager of IS&T's mobile devices platform project. The course focused
on how to pick a project idea and rapidly bring it to fruition through
the prototype phase.
Students worked in project teams. One noteworthy feature of the
course was its use of mentors, professional application developers
from the Boston-area software developer community who volunteered to
work with the teams. We are deeply grateful to our team mentors: Eric
Carlson, Rich Miner, Dave Mitchell, Joe Onorato, Steve Strassmann, and
Raj Surati.
The class ended with a public presentation on May 9, was attended
by the press, local industry, and technology venture funders. Here
are videos of the presentations:
All the teams produced working applications, and performed at an
extremely impressive level. One team -- Locale -- was a winner in the
Google Android Deveoper Challenge, garnering prizes of $25,000 (for
round 1) and then $275,000 (for round 2).
Here is some press coverage of the class:
